Page 3: Historical Events In March - 13
Friday, 11 July 2025
1855 Percival "Percy" Lowell, US astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto) on March - 13.
1858 On March - 13 maximilien Luce, French painter
1859 John Brown 1800-1859 brings first black slaves to Canada from the US via the Underground Railway; he is later made famous in a song, John Brown's Body, about a raid he made on Harper's Ferry, Virginia on March - 13.
1859 On this day in history ivo Bligh, cricketer (Lord Darnley England capt v Australia 1882-83)
1860 On March - 13 the birth of Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer
1861 Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers on this day in history.
1862 On March - 13 vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer
1865 On March - 13 uS Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service
1865 On March - 13 jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers
1868 On March - 13 senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
1868 On this day in history senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
1869 On March - 13 arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law
1872 On this day in history oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist
1875 On March - 13 maria E G "Lizzy" Ansingh, Dutch painter (Caught Sultane)
1878 On this day in history oxford defeats Cambridge in their first golf match
1878 Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match on March - 13.
1879 On March - 13 adolf Anderssen, German world champ chess (1851..66), dies at 60
1881 In Russia, Czar Alexander II is killed near the Winter Palace by a hand-bomb thrown by a member of the "People’s Will," a militant wing of the Narodniki movement, which advocated socialist reform in Russia and the elimination of the central government on this day in history.
1881 Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer on March - 13.
1881 On March - 13 alexander II, Tsar of Russia, assassinated at 62
1883 Enrico Toselli, composer on March - 13.
1884 On this day in history siege of Khartoum Sudan begins
1884 On March - 13 the birth of Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist
1884 On this day in history uS adopts Standard Time
1884 Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit) on this day in history.
1885 On this day in history in Victoria British Columbia, the Legislature passes Chinese Restriction; bans entry of Chinese immigrants, later ruled unconstitutional
1886 Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist on March - 13.
1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs on this day in history.
1887 Carlos Isamitt, composer on this day in history.
1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages on March - 13.
1890 Michael Taube, composer on March - 13.
1890 On this day in history henry Wylde, composer, dies at 67
1892 Alec Rowley, composer on March - 13.
1894 On March - 13 j L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate
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